1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its ninety-second
session (12 to 21 June 2013), with a view to ensuring a uniform approach
towards the application of the provisions of the Performance
standard for protective coatings for dedicated seawater ballast tanks
in all types of ships and double-side skin spaces of bulk carriers (resolution MSC.215(82)); and following the recommendation
made by the Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment, at its fifty-seventh
session, approved unified interpretations for the above Performance
standard, as set out in the annex. The unified interpretations in
the annex revise and supersede the unified interpretations of the
Performance standard approved by the Committee as MSC.1/Circ.1378.
2 Member Governments are invited to use the annexed
unified interpretations when applying the relevant provisions of the
Performance standard and to bring them to the attention of all parties
concerned.